“It’s Personal,” featuring zines, books, and more. On view from February 8 – March 15, 2019.

In “It’s Personal,” the artists use the unique qualities of sequencing, format, and multiples that zines and artists’ books allow as way to explore and share with a wide audience their interests, perspectives, longings, and questions.

The exhibition will run from February 8–March 15, 2019, with an artists’ talk in the Special Collections Research Center of Fenwick Library on Wednesday, February 27, 2019 at 3:00pm.

]]>http://fenwickgallery.gmu.edu/opening-this-friday-its-personal/feed/0EXTENDED: [Land]scape now on display through February 1http://fenwickgallery.gmu.edu/extended-landscape-now-on-display-through-february-1/
http://fenwickgallery.gmu.edu/extended-landscape-now-on-display-through-february-1/#respondThu, 17 Jan 2019 17:44:40 +0000http://fenwickgallery.gmu.edu/?p=4406Have you had a chance to visit [Land]scape, our current exhibition of graduate work? We’re giving you a new year’s gift of time! The exhibition has been extended through Friday, February 1. You can visit Fenwick Gallery any time during Fenwick Library’s open hours (now back to the regular semester schedule).
]]>http://fenwickgallery.gmu.edu/extended-landscape-now-on-display-through-february-1/feed/0Opening 12/3: [Land]scapehttp://fenwickgallery.gmu.edu/opening-123-landscape/
http://fenwickgallery.gmu.edu/opening-123-landscape/#respondMon, 03 Dec 2018 18:06:48 +0000http://fenwickgallery.gmu.edu/?p=4391What is a landscape? A scenic countryside? A long-standing tradition in art history? The distant backdrop of our lives and memories? In the exhibition [Land]scape, artists ask us to engage the notion of landscape on multiple levels. Featuring a range of painting, mixed media, printmaking, sculpture, and video works, the exhibition itself becomes a landscape revealing a strata of emerging art practices within Mason’s Visual Arts MFA program.

Presented by Fenwick Gallery in partnership with ARTIFACT, a graduate student organization for MFA candidates in Mason’s School of Art.

]]>http://fenwickgallery.gmu.edu/opening-123-landscape/feed/0Call & Response: Borders | Opens October 10http://fenwickgallery.gmu.edu/call-response-borders-opens-october-10/
http://fenwickgallery.gmu.edu/call-response-borders-opens-october-10/#respondMon, 01 Oct 2018 12:54:24 +0000http://fenwickgallery.gmu.edu/?p=4359Call & Response is an annual exhibition of collaborations between writers and visual artists, in which ones calls and one responds. The result is a dynamic set of paired works of words and artistic media that resonate and speak to contemporary issues. The theme for the twelfth annual Call & Response is Borders.

Learn more about this exhibition at http://fenwickgallery.gmu.edu/exhibits/borders

]]>http://fenwickgallery.gmu.edu/call-response-borders-opens-october-10/feed/0Artist’s talk with Mel Parada this Wednesday, 9/26http://fenwickgallery.gmu.edu/artists-talk-with-mel-parada-this-wednesday/
http://fenwickgallery.gmu.edu/artists-talk-with-mel-parada-this-wednesday/#respondMon, 24 Sep 2018 14:34:39 +0000http://fenwickgallery.gmu.edu/?p=4354Reminder! Join us this Wednesday, September 26 at 11am for a discussion with Mel Parada, in conversation with Emily Fussner (Fenwick Gallery GPA).

This artist’s talk will be held in the Fenwick Main Reading Room (2001) on the second floor of Fenwick Library. Visitor parking is available in the Rappahannock River or Mason Pond parking decks — see the Fairfax campus parking map for more details.

Rethinking Lines examines the possibilities of meaning making and attempts to remove narrative from communication design through visual treatments that involve the deconstruction of typography, reconfigured grid systems, scale, and color theory. The work embodies theoretical approaches found in the Minimalist movement as well as abstraction movements like De Stijl and Constructivism.

Mel Parada holds an MFA from the School of Art at George Mason University, where he also serves as an adjunct faculty member in graphic design.

Convergence focuses on the intersecting and overlapping lines of artist Nikki Brugnoli’s research over the last four years in Virginia and Pennsylvania. Disregarded, post-industrial structures from her past and present as well as widening horizons converge through a series of mixed media drawings, screen prints and photographs. These investigations are engaged meditations on memory and loss, abandonment and reconciliation.

“This exhibition aims to widen the view for myself and for my audience and to better understand how all things relate; things forgotten, hidden, lost and revealed.” Learn more about these works and the artist on our Exhibitions page.

]]>http://fenwickgallery.gmu.edu/nikki-brugnoli-convergence/feed/0Upcoming exhibition: ORIGINShttp://fenwickgallery.gmu.edu/upcoming-exhibition-origins/
http://fenwickgallery.gmu.edu/upcoming-exhibition-origins/#respondMon, 09 Apr 2018 16:02:20 +0000http://fenwickgallery.gmu.edu/?p=4253Mark your calendars! Opening on April 16, Originsis an exhibition from the Mason MFA Printmaking collective, ELEMENTS, and examines creation myths focusing on the genesis of man, the material world, and the role of divine beings.

Developed by the German Embassy, this exhibition provides facts about immigration in Germany as well as stories about immigrants and refugees who came to Germany and made a positive difference. Learn more on our exhibitions page.

This event is co-organized by Dr. Natalia Dudnik, Term Assistant Professor of German Studies, and is co-sponsored by the Modern and Classical Languages Department at George Mason University and the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany.

]]>http://fenwickgallery.gmu.edu/opening-monday-germany-integrating-immigrants/feed/0Kate Fitzpatrick: Asemic Manuscript opens February 9http://fenwickgallery.gmu.edu/kate-fitzpatrick-asemic-manuscript-opens-february-9/
http://fenwickgallery.gmu.edu/kate-fitzpatrick-asemic-manuscript-opens-february-9/#respondFri, 09 Feb 2018 19:36:53 +0000http://fenwickgallery.gmu.edu/?p=4200Deconstructing traditional writing systems and letter forms, artist Kate Fitzpatrick invents her own written language as meditation. The work unveils a realm of streaming consciousness, forming a mantra of the artist, while the structure of the page invites the viewer to search for the familiar and reflect on the unknown.

On display now through March 16, 2018. Join us on Wednesday, March 7 for an artist’s talk with Fitzpatrick and curator Jennifer Lillis. Learn more and see a full artist’s statement on our Exhibits page.